Posted on 06/04/2004 11:12:18 AM PDT by hollandintucson
He believed that his whole life had been leading up to this moment in history. The time was December 1941. Japan had sunk the American fleet at Pearl Hitler and Hitler’s Nazi legions were at the gates of Moscow. He believed that the fate of the civilized world depended upon America resolve. Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall picked him to lead the most powerful military force ever assembled—the soldiers of the greatest generation. He accepted the charge and led the nation to victory in the bloodiest conflict in world history . . . The story goes that he was a relatively unknown officer, plucked from obscurity by General Marshall to lead the Allied armies in World War II. However, like many popular stories, this was a myth . . .
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